Lynch Mob / Groupthink Britain.

Morning Mugs,

I'm a big fan of the BBC and everything it supplies. Or I was. But there is no doubt it has got more and more rotten recently. It regularly platforms hard right liars and cheats such as Farage, Duncan-Smith, Rees-Mogg...it has interviewed Gerard Batten for fucks sake. The utterly despicable, lying and cheating ERG are often interviewed. Jacob Rees-Mogg, a back bencher gets more BBC TV and radio airtime that Tom Watson or David Lidington.

And then today they sack Danny Baker for a misjudged tweet. He admitted it was a poor judgement call. He apologised. he took the tweet down. But this wasn't enough for the BBC so they sacked him.

It all smacks of a number of things. The first is ageism. Baker is 61 so in my view they had the perfect opportunity to remove an experienced, funny, eccentric presenter and can now replace him with some dull, younger fuckwit in the mould of Dermot O' Leary...surely the dullest, blandest prick to grace a TV or radio station. It also removes a working class presenter, so no doubt they can get some ex-grad presenter in. Someone for the millennials.   It also doffs the cap towards privilege. They can look some minor royals in the eye safe in the knowledge the establishment is less infected by someone from the rougher side of the tracks. 

It was cowardly, craven, overtly politically correct action. It was arse gravy. And now 5 live has lost another listener. LBC may field cunts like Farage, but the allow other presenters to dig him out for the racist gobshite he is. But they have excellence in James O' Brien, Shelagh Fogarty and Eddie Mair and now my speech radio patronage goes there. 

Something is rotten at the core of the BBC. The hipsters and bleeding hearts are in charge now. Expect more blandness. Expect more forced diversity. Expect more PC. Expect less support over the funding model. Because right now I hope they ditch the licence and allow the thing to whither on the vine. Netflix and Prime are the future of ad-free TV. 

In the meantime, the Danny Baker Show podcasts are treasured items on my iPhone. 

Later Mugs, GJ